Will be part of convention town hall on violence, racial healing

6:44 PM,
Jul. 24, 2012

Hundreds crowded Fountain Square on March 26 during a rally in support of Trayvon Martin, a teen who was shot and killed in Florida.

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The parents of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed Florida teen shot and killed by a neighborhood watch volunteer, will be in Cincinnati today to participate in a national town hall meeting on violence and racial healing.

Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton, accompanied by their lawyer, Benjamin Crump, will be a part of the discussion at the Duke Energy Convention Center as part of the Children's Defense Fund national conference.

Children's Defense Fund president Marian Wright Edelman called the killing of the unarmed teenager "outrageous." ...